Morning Coffee: Can Major League Baseball fix its attendance woes?
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/mlb/2019/05/13/mlb-attendance-woes-can-they-be-fixed/1185468001/

>Baseballs are flying out of parks at a record rate, and pitchers want answers.
>USA TODAY Sports' Gabe Lacques explains the impact of MLB's new baseball. USA TODAY

>Way more than peanuts and Cracker Jacks are going to be needed to solve a serious
>and growing problem facing Major League Baseball: Far fewer people are being taken out to the old ballgame.

>Through Saturday's games, attendance in MLB parks so far
>this season was down more than 233,000 from the same time frame in 2018 (according to Baseball Reference).
>Of the league's 30 teams, 18 are experiencing an attendance drop.

>And this is after a 2018 season in which attendance was down more than 3 million fans,
>an average of 1,237 per game.

2018年シーズンと比べ233,000人以上減少
1ゲーム当たり平均1,237人減